Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Title: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide 

Author: Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn

Paperback: 320 pages

Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (June 1, 2010)

What Is It About? From two of the most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope.

What People Say: 

"I read so many amazing stories and it tore my heart to pieces, I cried and learned things that I wish I hadn't. " - Books&Stuff

"Kristof and WuDunn weave together a most compelling story of how culture and customs historically suppress women. " - C.T. Boone

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